On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Really... if you were using 20gb/month I might ask questions, but isn't >>>> this a bit silly? >>> >>> There's nothing silly in querying "higher than normal" usage; as it >>> may indicate that you have a compromised PC forming part of a botnet >>> or something. >>> >>> However, once you have managed to confirm that the high reading is >>> "correct" (i.e. worked out how much Google Mail uses by asking other >>> people), the baseline should just get reset, and no further questions >>> are necessary :-) >>> >>> I once saw a business switch from Telecom to Telstra, and the Telstra >>> plan had a "10GB/month" setting. Luckily for them, their network tech >>> noticed (after the switchover) that they were running at 1GB/day on >>> email. This was queried; the fix was to get them to stop accepting all >>> email for their domain, and instead accept only named users (e.g. >>> staff + "sales@", "accounts@" etc). This dropped them down to a few >>> hundred meg a month. >>> >>> Asking the question about usage is an essential part of finding problems :-) >>> >> >> Exactly, I am way over the firm baseline. I do more online stuff, >> searches google and non google), download cases etc in my legal >> practice than others in the firm, but still seem to be way out of >> kilter with others. Big traffic to google was about half of it. I am >> on a fact finding mission more than anything. >> >> An the data costs nothing to produce and minimal to print as a graph! > > ntop [1] is your friend. > > It's available as an addon package for both IPCop and pfSense. > > [1] http://www.ntop.org/overview.html
Of no use to me here sorry (I did put OT in the subject :-)
